Abstract

In this work I try to propose a reading of some aspects of the thought of the latest Pareyson, which highlights the feature of the radical paradoxality of the divine principle. The puzzling expression “God before God”, used by Pareyson, is perhaps the most significant example that offers the opportunity to discover, on Pareyson’s reflection, the abysmal sense of paradox hidden in the divine nature. While we can not assert, in the latest Pareyson, a real attack on the Aristotelian principle of non-contradiction, it is still possible to argue that the thought of the absolute origin is constitutively marked by a paradox in the full sense of the word, not in a metaphorical one. If we accept this hypothesis of reading, the divine can only show, a really contradictory essence. The essay, then, tries to argue the thesis that the aporetic nature of the thought of the principle, formulated by Pareyson in comparison with Plotinus and Schelling’s lesson, should not be regarded as a negative or defective aspect of his meontology, but as the most interesting and original moment of his last message.